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List of Royal Academicians
This is a partial list of Royal Academicians (Post-nominal: RA), academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections.[1]
| Name | Elected | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| John Baker | 1768 | Foundation member |
| George Barret | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Francesco Bartolozzi | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Agostino Carlini | 1768 | Foundation member; Keeper 1783–90 |
| Charles Catton | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Mason Chamberlin | 1768 | Foundation member |
| William Chambers | 1768 | Foundation member; first Treasurer 1768–96 |
| Giovanni Battista Cipriani | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Francis Cotes | 1768 | Foundation member |
| George Dance the Younger | 1768 | Foundation member; Professor of Architecture 1798–1805 |
| Nathaniel Dance-Holland | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Thomas Gainsborough | 1768 | Foundation member |
| John Gwynn | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Francis Hayman | 1768 | Foundation member; first Academy librarian 1770–1776 |
| Nathaniel Hone | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Angelica Kauffman | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Jeremiah Meyer | 1768 | Foundation member |
| George Michael Moser | 1768 | Foundation member; first Keeper 1768–83 |
| Mary Moser | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Francis Milner Newton | 1768 | Foundation member; first Secretary 1768–88 |
| Edward Penny | 1768 | Foundation member; first Professor of Painting 1768–82 |
| Joshua Reynolds | 1768 | Foundation member; President 1768–1792 |
| John Inigo Richards | 1768 | Foundation member; Secretary 1788–1810 |
| Paul Sandby | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Thomas Sandby | 1768 | Foundation member; first Professor of Architecture 1768–98 |
| Dominic Serres | 1768 | Foundation member; Librarian 1792–93 |
| Peter Toms | 1768 | Foundation member |
| William Tyler | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Samuel Wale | 1768 | Foundation member; first Professor of Perspective 1768–1786; Librarian 1782–86 |
| Benjamin West | 1768 | Foundation member; President 1792–1805 & 1806–20 |
| Richard Wilson | 1768 | Foundation member; Librarian 1776–1782 |
| Joseph Wilton | 1768 | Foundation member; Librarian 1786–1790; Keeper 1790–1803 |
| Richard Yeo | 1768 | Foundation member |
| Francesco Zuccarelli | 1768 | Foundation member |
| William Hoare | 1769 | Nominated member |
| Johann Zoffany | 1769 | Nominated member |
| Edward Burch | 1771 | Librarian 1794–1814 |
| Richard Cosway | 1771 | |
| Joseph Nollekens | 1772 | |
| James Barry | 1773 | Professor of Painting 1782–1799 |
| Matthew William Peters | 1777 | Honorary Chaplain 1784–1788 |
| John Singleton Copley | 1779 | |
| John Bacon | 1778 | |
| Philip James de Loutherbourg | 1781 | |
| George Stubbs | 1781 | |
| Edmund Garvey | 1783 | |
| John Francis Rigaud | 1784 | |
| Thomas Banks | 1785 | |
| Joseph Farington | 1785 | |
| James Wyatt | 1785 | President 1805–1806 |
| William Hodges | 1787 | |
| James Northcote | 1787 | |
| John Opie | 1788 | Professor of Painting 1805–1807 |
| John Russell | 1788 | |
| William Hamilton | 1789 | |
| Henry Fuseli | 1790 | Professor of Painting 1799–1805 & 1810–25; Keeper 1804–1825 |
| Ozias Humphrey | 1791 | |
| Francis Wheatley | 1791 | |
| John Yenn | 1791 | Treasurer 1796–1820 |
| John Webber | 1791 | |
| Francis Bourgeois | 1793 | |
| Robert Smirke | 1793 | |
| Thomas Lawrence | 1794 | President 1820–30 |
| Richard Westall | 1794 | |
| Thomas Stothard | 1794 | Librarian 1814–1834 |
| John Hoppner | 1795 | |
| Sawrey Gilpin | 1797 | |
| William Beechey | 1798 | Associate RA: 1793 |
| Thomas Daniell | 1799 | |
| Henry Tresham | 1799 | Professor of Painting 1807–1809 |
| John Flaxman | 1800 | first Professor of Sculpture 1810–26 |
| Martin Archer Shee | 1800 | President 1830–50 |
| John Soane | 1802 | Professor of Architecture 1806–37 |
| J. M. W. Turner | 1802 | Professor of Perspective 1807–37 |
| Henry Thomson | 1804 | Keeper 1825–27 |
| William Owen | 1806 | |
| Samuel Woodforde | 1807 | |
| Henry Howard | 1808 | Secretary 1811–47; Professor of Painting 1833–1847 |
| Thomas Phillips | 1808 | Professor of Painting 1825–32 |
| Augustus Wall Callcott | 1810 | |
| Henry Bone | 1811 | |
| James Ward | 1811 | |
| David Wilkie | 1811 | |
| Richard Westmacott | 1811 | Professor of Sculpture 1827–56 |
| Robert Smirke | 1811 | Treasurer 1820–50 |
| Philip Reinagle | 1812 | |
| William Theed | 1813 | |
| George Dawe | 1814 | |
| Edward Bird | 1815 | |
| Henry Raeburn | 1815 | |
| Alfred Edward Chalon | 1816 | |
| John Jackson | 1817 | |
| Francis Leggatt Chantrey | 1818 | |
| William Hilton | 1819 | Keeper 1827–39 |
| William Collins | 1820 | Librarian 1840–42 |
| Abraham Cooper | 1820 | |
| Edward Hodges Baily | 1821 | |
| Richard Cook | 1822 | |
| William Daniell | 1822 | |
| Ramsay Richard Reinagle | 1823 | |
| George Jones | 1824 | Librarian 1834–1840; Keeper 1840–50 |
| Jeffry Wyatville | 1824 | |
| Charles Robert Leslie | 1826 | Professor of Painting 1847–52 |
| Henry William Pickersgill | 1826 | Librarian 1856–64 |
| William Wilkins | 1826 | Professor of Architecture 1837–39 |
| William Etty | 1828 | |
| John Constable | 1829 | |
| Charles Lock Eastlake | 1830 | Librarian 1842–44; President 1850–65 |
| Edwin Henry Landseer | 1831 | |
| William Allan | 1835 | |
| Clarkson Stanfield | 1835 | |
| Charles Robert Cockerell | 1836 | Professor of Architecture 1839–59 |
| John Gibson | 1836 | |
| John Peter Gandy | 1838 | |
| Frederick Richard Lee | 1838 | |
| Thomas Uwins | 1838 | Librarian 1844–55 |
| Daniel Maclise | 1840 | |
| Solomon Alexander Hart | 1840 | Professor of Painting 1854–63; Librarian 1864–81 |
| William Frederick Witherington | 1840 | |
| John James Chalon | 1841 | |
| Philip Hardwick | 1841 | Treasurer 1850–61 |
| David Roberts | 1841 | |
| Charles Barry | 1842 | |
| William Charles Ross | 1843 | |
| John Prescott Knight | 1844 | Secretary 1847–1873; Professor of Perspective 1852–1860 |
| Charles Landseer | 1845 | Keeper 1851–73 |
| John Rogers Herbert | 1846 | |
| Charles West Cope | 1848 | Professor of Painting 1866–75 |
| William Dyce | 1848 | |
| Richard Westmacott | 1849 | Professor of Sculpture 1857–68 |
| John Watson Gordon | 1851 | |
| Francis Grant | 1851 | President 1866–78 |
| Richard Redgrave | 1851 | |
| William Powell Frith | 1853 | |
| Samuel Cousins | 1855 | |
| Frederick Richard Pickersgill | 1857 | Keeper 1873–1887 |
| John Henry Foley | 1858 | |
| Sydney Smirke | 1859 | Treasurer 1861–1874; Professor of Architecture 1860–1865 |
| Augustus Egg | 1860 | |
| George Gilbert Scott | 1860 | Professor of Architecture 1866–1873 |
| Edward William Cooke | 1863 | |
| William Boxall | 1863 | |
| John Everett Millais | 1863 | President 1896 |
| Henry Weekes | 1863 | Professor of Sculpture 1868–76 |
| John Callcott Horsley | 1864 | Treasurer 1882–1897 |
| Carlo Marochetti | 1866 | |
| George Richmond | 1866 | |
| Philip Hermogenes Calderon | 1867 | Keeper 1887–98 |
| Thomas Sidney Cooper | 1867 | |
| George Frederic Watts | 1867 | |
| Frederic Leighton | 1868 | President 1878–96 |
| Edward Middleton Barry | 1869 | Professor of Architecture 1873–80; Treasurer 1874–80 |
| James Sant | 1869 | |
| Richard Ansdell | 1870 | |
| William Charles Thomas Dobson | 1871 | |
| Lumb Stocks | 1871 | |
| George Edmund Street | 1871 | Professor of Architecture 1880–81; Treasurer 1880–81 |
| Frederick Walker | 1871 | |
| Edward Armitage | 1872 | Professor of Painting 1875–82 |
| Thomas Woolner | 1874 | Professor of Sculpture 1877–78 |
| John Gilbert | 1876 | |
| Edward Poynter | 1876 | President 1896–1918 |
| William Quiller Orchardson | 1877 | |
| Richard Norman Shaw | 1877 | Treasurer 1882 |
| Henry Stacy Marks | 1878 | |
| William Frederick Yeames | 1878 | Librarian 1896–1911 |
| Lawrence Alma-Tadema | 1879 | |
| John Evan Hodgson | 1879 | Librarian 1882–95; Professor of Painting 1882–95 |
| George Vicat Cole | 1880 | |
| Henry Hugh Armstead | 1880 | |
| John Loughborough Pearson | 1880 | |
| William Burges | 1881 | |
| Edwin Long | 1881 | |
| Walter William Ouless | 1881 | |
| Joseph Edgar Boehm | 1882 | |
| Briton Rivière | 1881 | |
| Frank Holl | 1883 | |
| Alfred Waterhouse | 1885 | Treasurer 1897–1901 |
| Luke Fildes | 1887 | |
| Marcus Stone | 1887 | |
| Hamo Thornycroft | 1888 | |
| Hubert von Herkomer | 1890 | Professor of Painting 1899–1900 & 1906–1909 |
| Thomas Brock | 1891 | |
| Frank Dicksee | 1891 | President 1924–1928 |
| Andrew Carrick Gow | 1891 | Keeper 1911–1920; Librarian 1911–1920 |
| Alfred Gilbert | 1892 | Professor of Sculpture 1900–1904 |
| Val Prinsep | 1894 | Professor of Painting 1900–1903 |
| Edward Onslow Ford | 1895 | |
| William Blake Richmond | 1895 | Professor of Painting 1895–1899 & 1909–1911 |
| John William Waterhouse | 1895 | |
| Ernest Crofts | 1896 | Keeper 1898–1911 |
| Thomas Graham Jackson | 1896 | Treasurer 1901–1912 |
| John Singer Sargent | 1897 | |
| George Frederic Watts | 1897 | |
| Edwin Austin Abbey | 1898 | |
| George Aitchison | 1898 | Professor of Architecture 1887–1905 |
| Benjamin Williams Leader | 1898 | |
| George Frederick Bodley | 1902 | |
| George Frampton | 1902 | |
| Aston Webb | 1903 | Treasurer 1912–1919; President 1919–24 |
| Robert Walker Macbeth | 1903 | |
| David Murray | 1905 | |
| George Clausen | 1908 | Professor of Painting 1903–1906 |
| William Lionel Wyllie | 1907 | |
| John Belcher | 1909 | |
| Goscombe John | 1909 | |
| James Jebusa Shannon | 1909 | |
| Arthur Stockdale Cope | 1910 | |
| Charles Napier Hemy | 1910 | |
| Frank Bramley | 1911 | |
| Henry Herbert La Thangue | 1912 | |
| Reginald Blomfield | 1914 | Professor of Architecture 1907–11 |
| Alfred East | 1913 | |
| G.A. Storey | 1914 | Professor of Perspective 1914–19 |
| Henry Scott Tuke | 1914 | |
| John Arnesby Brown | 1915 | |
| Charles Sims | 1915 | Keeper 1920–26 |
| Ernest George | 1917 | |
| William Robert Colton | 1917 | Professor of Sculpture 1907–1911 |
| Frank Brangwyn | 1919 | |
| Ernest Newton | 1919 | |
| William Orpen | 1919 | |
| Adrian Scott Stokes | 1919 | |
| David Young Cameron | 1920 | |
| William Llewellyn | 1920 | President 1928–1938 |
| Charles Haslewood Shannon | 1920 | |
| Edwin Landseer Lutyens | 1920 | President 1938–1944 |
| Robert Anning Bell | 1922 | |
| Giles Gilbert Scott | 1922 | |
| Terrick Williams | 1924 | |
| Philip Connard | 1925 | Keeper 1945–1949 |
| John James Burnet | 1925 | |
| Alfred Munnings | 1925 | President 1944–1949 |
| Walter Westley Russell | 1926 | Keeper 1927–42 |
| Augustus John | 1928 | |
| William Reid Dick | 1928 | |
| Gerald Kelly | 1930 | Keeper 1943–1945; President 1949–1954 |
| Sydney Lee | 1930 | Treasurer 1932–40 |
| Herbert Baker | 1932 | |
| George Spencer Watson | 1932 | |
| Wilfrid de Glehn | 1932 | |
| Henry Macbeth-Raeburn | 1933 | Associate RA: 1922 |
| William Russell Flint | 1933 | |
| William Curtis Green | 1933 | |
| Frank Short | 1933 | Treasurer 1919–32 |
| Lamorna Birch | 1934 | |
| Walter Sickert | 1934 | |
| Francis Dodd | 1935 | |
| Guy Dawber | 1935 | |
| Laura Knight | 1936 | |
| Henry Rushbury | 1936 | Keeper 1949–1964 |
| Harold Knight | 1937 | |
| Edwin Cooper | 1937 | Treasurer 1940–42 |
| Frederick William Elwell | 1938 | |
| Walter Thomas Monnington | 1938 | President 1966–76 |
| Charles Wheeler | 1940 | President 1956–66 |
| James Bateman | 1942 | |
| Meredith Frampton | 1942 | |
| Vincent Harris | 1942 | Treasurer 1942–54 |
| Arthur Joseph Davis | 1942 | |
| Thomas Cantrell Dugdale | 1943 | |
| Algernon Newton | 1943 | |
| Albert Richardson | 1944 | Professor of Architecture 1946–61; President 1954–56 |
| Charles Cundall | 1944 | |
| Edward Maufe | 1947 | Treasurer 1954–58 |
| Winston Churchill | 1948 | Honorary Academician Extraordinary |
| Henry Lamb | 1949 | |
| Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd | 1949 | |
| Stanley Spencer | 1950 | |
| John Nash | 1951 | |
| Arnold Mason | 1951 | |
| Steven Spurrier | 1952 | |
| Frank Dobson | 1953 | |
| Louis de Soissons | 1953 | Treasurer 1958–1962 |
| Richard Eurich | 1953 | |
| William Dring | 1955 | |
| Hubert Worthington | 1955 | |
| Howard Robertson | 1958 | |
| Peter Greenham | 1960 | Keeper 1964–1985 |
| Basil Spence | 1960 | Professor of Architecture 1961–1967; Treasurer 1962–1964 |
| Herbert James Gunn | 1961 | Treasurer 1964 |
| Norman Hepple | 1961 | |
| Rodney Joseph Burn | 1962 | |
| L.S. Lowry | 1962 | |
| Donald McMorran | 1962 | Treasurer 1965 |
| John Aldridge | 1963 | |
| Marshall Sisson | 1963 | Treasurer 1965–70 |
| Raymond Erith | 1964 | |
| Andrew Freeth | 1965 | |
| Carel Weight | 1965 | |
| Henry Carr | 1966 | |
| William Roberts | 1966 | |
| Raymond Teague Cowern | 1968 | |
| Charles Mahoney | 1968 | |
| Eric Schilsky | 1968 | |
| William Holford | 1968 | Treasurer 1970–1975 |
| Roger de Grey | 1969 | Treasurer 1976–1984; President 1984–1993 |
| Frederick Gibberd | 1969 | |
| Leonard Rosoman | 1969 | |
| Willi Soukop | 1969 | |
| Hugh Casson | 1970 | Treasurer 1975–1976; President 1976–1984 |
| Edward Ardizzone | 1970 | |
| Colin Hayes | 1970 | |
| John Bratby | 1971 | |
| Gertrude Hermes | 1971 | |
| Norman Adams | 1972 | Keeper 1986–1995; Professor of Painting 1986 & 1995–1999 |
| Ralph Brown | 1972 | |
| Jean Cooke | 1972 | |
| Maxwell Fry | 1972 | Professor of Architecture 1967–1975 |
| Frederick Gore | 1972 | |
| Edward Wolfe | 1972 | |
| William MacTaggart | 1973 | |
| Edward Middleditch | 1973 | Keeper 1985–1986 |
| Fred Cuming | 1974 | |
| Bryan Kneale | 1974 | Professor of Sculpture 1985–1989 |
| Kyffin Williams | 1974 | |
| Olwyn Bowey | 1975 | |
| Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown | 1975 | Professor of Architecture 1975–88 |
| Ernő Goldfinger | 1975 | |
| Elizabeth Blackadder | 1976 | |
| Jennifer Dickson | 1976 | |
| Elisabeth Frink | 1977 | |
| Anthony Green | 1977 | |
| Philip Powell | 1977 | Treasurer 1985–1995 |
| Sandra Blow | 1978 | |
| Leonard Manasseh | 1979 | |
| Eduardo Paolozzi | 1979 | |
| David Tindle | 1979 | |
| Peter Blake | 1981 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2002–2004 |
| William Bowyer | 1981 | |
| Sonia Lawson | 1982 | |
| Tom Phillips | 1984 | |
| Trevor Dannatt | 1983 | Professor of Architecture 1988–1995 |
| Michael Rothenstein | 1983 | |
| Richard Rogers | 1984 | |
| Philip Dowson | 1985 | President 1993–1999 |
| Donald Hamilton Fraser | 1985 | |
| Leslie Martin | 1985 | |
| Ove Arup | 1986 | |
| Allen Jones | 1986 | |
| Michael Kenny | 1986 | Treasurer 1995–1999 |
| Morris Kestelman | 1986 | |
| Norman Ackroyd | 1988 | |
| Eileen Agar | 1988 | |
| Craigie Aitchison | 1988 | |
| Phillip King | 1988 | Professor of Sculpture 1989–1999; President 1999–2004 |
| Ann Christopher | 1989 | |
| Lawrence Gowing | 1989 | Honorary Curator 1985–1991 |
| Berthold Lubetkin | 1989 | |
| Michael Sandle | 1989 | |
| Theo Crosby | 1990 | |
| Ivor Abrahams | 1991 | Professor of Sculpture 2007–2010 |
| Norman Ackroyd | 1991 | Professor of Printmaking |
| Diana Armfield | 1991 | |
| Gillian Ayres | 1991 | |
| John Bellany | 1991 | |
| Edward Cullinan | 1991 | |
| Kenneth Draper | 1991 | |
| Norman Foster | 1991 | |
| Paul Huxley | 1991 | Treasurer 2000–2014 |
| David Hockney | 1991 | |
| Ken Howard | 1991 | Professor of Perspective 2004–2012 |
| John Hoyland | 1991 | Professor of Painting 1999–2010 |
| Bill Jacklin | 1991 | |
| Geoffrey Jellicoe | 1991 | |
| R. B. Kitaj | 1991 | |
| Paul Koralek | 1991 | |
| Denys Lasdun | 1991 | |
| Leonard McComb | 1991 | Keeper 1995–98 |
| Dhruva Mistry | 1991 | |
| Sidney Nolan | 1991 | |
| James Stirling | 1991 | |
| Joe Tilson | 1991 | |
| Colin St John Wilson | 1991 | |
| Terry Frost | 1992 | |
| Michael Hopkins | 1992 | |
| Brendan Neiland | 1992 | Keeper 1998–2004 |
| Richard MacCormac | 1993 | |
| Jennifer Durrant | 1994 | |
| Nicholas Grimshaw | 1994 | President 2004–11 |
| Christopher Orr | 1995 | Treasurer 2014–2018 |
| Flavia Irwin | 1996 | |
| Christopher Le Brun | 1996 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2000 – 2002; President 2011–2019 |
| Patrick Procktor | 1996 | |
| Barbara Rae | 1996 | |
| Eva Jiřičná | 1997 | |
| Stephen Farthing | 1998 | |
| David Mach | 1998 | Professor of Sculpture 2000–2007 |
| Ian Ritchie | 1998 | Professor of Architecture 2004–2012 |
| Anish Kapoor | 1999 | |
| Alison Wilding | 1999 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2018–Present |
| Maurice Cockrill | 1999 | Keeper 2004–2011 |
| David Nash | 1999 | |
| Will Alsop | 2000 | |
| Gordon Benson | 2000 | |
| Lynn Chadwick | 2001 | |
| Eileen Cooper | 2001 | First female Keeper, 2011 – 2017 |
| Piers Gough | 2001 | Professor of Architecture 2013–2017 |
| Gary Hume | 2001 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2004–2006 |
| Richard Long | 2001 | |
| Fiona Rae | 2002 | Professor of Painting 2011–2015 |
| Peter Cook | 2003 | |
| Antony Gormley | 2003 | |
| Ian McKeever | 2003 | |
| Anthony Caro | 2004 | |
| Humphrey Ocean | 2004 | Professor of Perspective 2012–2020 |
| Frank Bowling | 2005 | |
| Zaha Hadid | 2005 | |
| Lisa Milroy | 2005 | |
| Basil Beattie | 2006 | |
| Michael Craig-Martin | 2006 | |
| David Remfry | 2006 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2016–18 |
| Chris Wilkinson | 2006 | Treasurer 2018–Present |
| Richard Wilson | 2006 | Professor of Sculpture 2011–15 |
| David Chipperfield | 2007 | |
| Tracey Emin | 2007 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2011–13 |
| Tony Bevan | 2007 | |
| John Carter | 2007 | |
| Jenny Saville | 2007 | |
| Gillian Wearing | 2007 | |
| Spencer de Grey | 2008 | |
| Tacita Dean | 2008 | |
| Michael Landy | 2008 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2014–16 |
| Cornelia Parker | 2009 | |
| Tess Jaray | 2010 | |
| Mali Morris | 2010 | Professor of Painting 2019-2020 |
| Phyllida Barlow | 2011 | |
| Anne Desmet | 2011 | |
| Grayson Perry | 2011 | |
| Ron Arad | 2012 | |
| Jock McFadyen | 2012 | |
| Thomas Heatherwick | 2013 | |
| Chantal Joffe | 2013 | Professor of Painting 2018–2019 |
| Mike Nelson | 2013 | Professor of Sculpture 2019-Present |
| Emma Stibbon | 2013 | |
| Conrad Shawcross | 2013 | |
| Louisa Hutton | 2014 | |
| Cathie Pilkington | 2014 | Professor of Sculpture 2015–2019; Keeper 2020-Present |
| Rebecca Warren | 2014 | |
| Rebecca Salter | 2014 | Keeper 2017–2019; President 2019-Present |
| Brian Catling | 2015 | |
| Farshid Moussavi | 2015 | Professor of Architecture 2017–Present |
| Vanessa Jackson | 2015 | |
| Roger Zogolovitch | 2015 | Honorary Surveyor |
| Sonia Boyce | 2016 | |
| David Adjaye | 2017 | |
| Fiona Banner | 2017 | Professor of Perspective 2020–Present |
| Isaac Julien | 2017 | |
| Gilbert & George | 2017 | Left the RA in 2020 [2] |
| Jane and Louise Wilson | 2018 | |
| Lubaina Himid | 2018 | Professor of Painting 2020–Present |
| Adam Caruso and Peter St John | 2018 | |
| Níall McLaughlin | 2019 | |
| John Akomfrah | 2019 | |
| Rana Begum | 2019 | |
| Amanda Levete | 2021 | |
| Hew Locke | 2022 |